Marianne de Trey

Marianne de Trey was born in London in 1913 of Swiss parents. She studied
textile design at the Royal College of Art.

She married Sam Haile in 1938 and
moved with him to the USA where he taught her to pot. The couple returned
to England in 1944. After the war they worked together at Bulmers Brickyard
in Sudbury, Suffolk at the pottery built by Mary Gibson-Horrocks.

In 1947 they took over Shinner's Bridge Pottery in Dartington, Devon,
but a year later Sam was killed in a road accident. Marianne carried on
at Shinner's Bridge alone, and was later host to the Dartington Pottery Training Workshop.
She moved to smaller premises in 1985.

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